Luke 23:17-33

¹⁷for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,

¹⁸and they cried out — the whole multitude — saying, 'Away with this one, and release to us Barabbas,'

¹⁹who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

²⁰Pilate again then — wishing to release Jesus — called to them,

²¹but they were calling out, saying, 'Crucify, crucify him.'

²²And he a third time said unto them, 'Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release him.'

²³And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

²⁴and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

²⁵and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.

²⁶And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear it behind Jesus.

²⁷And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,

²⁸and Jesus having turned unto them, said, 'Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;

²⁹for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

³⁰then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; —

³¹for, if in the green tree they do these things — in the dry what may happen?'

³²And there were also others — two evil-doers — with him, to be put to death;

³³and when they came to the place that is called Skull, there they crucified him and the evil-doers, one on the right hand and one on the left.